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LEVER AGTUATED GATE.

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(Application filed Apr. 24, 1899.)

Patented Aug. 8, I899.

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1115 Qi'bo r1 63 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH M. BELL, OF CANTON, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO JOHN E. GARDINER,

' AND FLOYD MARRINER, OF SAll [E PLACE.

LEVER-ACTUATED GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent l\To. 630,442, dated August 8, 1899.

Application filed April 24, 1899.

Serial No. 714,337. (to model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH M. BELL, of the city of Canton, county of Fulton, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lever-Actuated Gates, of which the following is a specification.

This invention provides improved and simplified means for carrying the gate open or closed after the midway positions are passed, and it enables the gate to be opened and closed with either lever, while precluding the possibility of opening the gate toward the operator. It is exemplified in the structure hereinafter described, and it is defined in the appended claims.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure lis a plan of a gate embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a plan of the undulating track used to open or close the gate after midway positions have been passed. Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the undulating track. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the track. Fig. 5 is a vertical section on line X in Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a side elevation of the swinging gate.

The gatel is made in any suitable manner, excepting the peculiarities hereinafter pointed out. It has eyes 1, that are monnted slidably on a vertical rod 3,"andit hasa springlatch 9, fastened to its swinging end and extended vertically. The hinge-post 2 has a vertical rod 3 or other elongated vertical bearings to engage the eyes 4; of the gate. The latch-post 10 has the horizontal catch-plate 11 on its upper end, and such plate is notched at its center to receive latch 9. An eye 5 is fastened in the upper rail of the gate, near the hinge thereof. A link 6 connects with the eye, and a rod 8 extends from the latchto the link and connectswith the link by means of. eye 7. The link and the rod are typical of a flexible connection between eye 5' and the latch 9, and their construction may bemodified and varied to any extent consistent with the operation hereinafter described.

Post 16 provides a fulcrum for a lever 17, the outer end of which is sufficiently extended to enable one seated in a vehicle to operate the gate. A bar 18 is fastened to lever 17, and it extends beyond the gate in a line diverging away from the hinge-post, as shown at 19. A rope or other flexible connection extends from the swinging end of bar 19 and connects with eye 7 of rod 8 or with the link 6. Post 12 on the side of the hinge-post opposite post 16 provides a fulcrum for lever 13, 5 5

the outer end of which is also suitably extended, and a bar 14 is fastened to lever-'13, extended around the end of bar 19 and terminated beyond the gate. A flexible connection 20 extends from the end of bar 14 to eye 7 or to some other intermediate part of the flexible" connection between the eye 5 and the gate-latch. The ends of bars 1 1 and 19 are equidistant from the gate-hinge and on a line drawn parallel with the levers, so that each has the same side pull on the gate when its lever is depressed at its outer end. Posts 21 and 22 are set one on each side of the hingepost 2, and post 27 is set in front of the hingepost or in line with the gate when the gate is closed A track semicircular in plan and undulatory in elevation is formed of rod or bar 23, and the undulations are such as to bring depressions near the track-supporting posts and the summits of the elevations midway between the depressions. Post 27 is set insidet he semicircle defined by the track, and the track is diverted inward to the post and out again, as shown at 25, and passed around a securing-bolt at 26. vides a central support for the track without interfering with the rollers that run oneon and one under it.

The gatehas itsend stile 1 (see Fig. 6) detached at its lower end, and it has a second- 8 5 my end stile 11, that provides bearings for a pair of rollers 24: and 2e. The rollers are set with their axes parallel with the length of the gate, and the lower one is supported from stile 1 alone, so that its extended end may be and the gate is then drawn away from the op- I00 This diversion pro- 80 one of the levers is erator by further depression of the lever. As the gate opens it ascends-one of the elevations of the track until about one-half of its swing is completed, when it will ride down the opposite side of the elevation and complete its swing without further effort on the part of the operator. The closing operation is a reversal of the opening operation, and it may be effected. by either lever.

The ends of the bars are so placed that they pull the gate toward the summits of the elevations of the track, and the roller 24: forces the gate along the track whenever upward pressure is applied.

What I claim is- 1. In a swinging gate, the combination of a semicircular track extended from side to side of the hinge-post and elevated midway between opening and closing positions, rollers in the gate engaging the track above and below, a pair of levers fulcrumed one on each side of the hinge-post and terminating beyond and equidistant from the same, a latch on the swinging end of the gate, a flexible line extending from the latch to an eye in the gate near the hinge thereof, and connections between the inner ends of the levers and such flexible line, substantially as set forth.

2..A track for swinging gates comprising the side posts and the intermediate post, and the semicircular undulating track diverting inward at its center to the intermediate post,

JOSEPH M. BELL.

Witnesses:

J OHN HINES, JOHN REEVES. 

